http://www.fieldofsteve.com Proof of the vast Steven Gardner-wing conspiracy Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:50:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This subject matter felt more inspiring to me when I was in the middle of it. So much influences how and when we make decisions. My car was locked, the key wouldn't work and Diana was going to take a while to come get me, so I walked to Barnes ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=286 In honor of Larry King's upcoming retirement, I join the gaggle of writers who attempt to write a parody column of the one he used to write in USA Today. I seldom read it, because it seemed like a waste of time. I'm sure it wasn't as big a waste ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=285 Sometime after 2 p.m. today people in the office began congratulating me. A couple did it at about the same time. I immediately sensed what it might be about, and a peek at the e-mail confirmed it. Each quarter Scripps, the parent company of the paper I work for, hands out ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=283 If there's one reason I ever wanted to be a Seattle commuter, this is it. http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=282 While writing for and reading the newspaper that employs me, it isn't often that I think about the trees being felled or programmers at work that help me do what I do. There have been times in my life when I have pondered the fact that pictures get slashed into ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=281 Last week I got around to writing about a proposal to allow Bremerton residents to have chickens in their backyards. I say "got around" to it because it had been on my list for months. A reporter from another paper got to it first and I was ashamed, so I ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=280 Joannie Rochette of Canada lost her mother on Sunday. On Tuesday she was the third best skater at the Olympics in the figure skating short program competition. No one appears to be holding out that she'll do well enough to medal after the long program, but Tuesday's performance was a ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=279 At some point in my life I came to see criminals as something other than the crimes they committed. Maybe it was the years between college and when I met Diana, where I proved that a man without a plan isn't to be trusted. Somehow I think it was sooner ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=278 Six years ago I took up blogging writing about Janet Jackson's exposed breast. The point behind launching the effort was to learn about blogging, but also to have a history of writing available when I wrote my first book. The blog would help market books, and the books would market ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=277 This story in Sunday's Kitsap Sun is one I had wanted to do for years. As it is with every story, once it was written I counted all the ways I could have made it better than it was. That's what writers do. Despite that, it was probably one of ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=276 http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=275 Eight years ago when the Sept. 11 attacks happened it was news that consumed our work as reporters for that week and beyond. Even a couple of weeks later a fellow reporter wondered aloud when he would write the first story that wouldn't include at least one sentence saying something ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=274 I am a blessed man. Just this evening I was recounting to my daughter that in all my years, and I've had more than it might appear, I've not once been bitten by a lion, or a tiger. That may seem astounding to you, but I assure you it's true. There are innumerable ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=273 http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=272 http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=271 It may be too much to ask that fictional cartoon characters behave rationally. From what I remember, though, the extreme possibilities available in cartoons were so outlandish and fantastic that they were beyond the scope of believable. Bugs Bunny did things I wanted to do, such as tormenting Canadians, but ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=270 http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=269 Please, think of the reporter's children. http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=268 I found this video here. Its title is "Are women born this way?" I know at least one who was, and, no, I am not married to her. http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=267 This place should be home to baseball well into October.The Dodgers should have every reason to expect to win the National League West. They have by far the easiest path there. The Dodgers have three games against the Rockies to end the season and six games against the Giants in ... http://www.fieldofsteve.com/?p=266